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Rheims, and which was known as Bleriot No. XII., would carry two people, pilot and passenger, while it had an 8-cylinder water-cooled motor developing 60 h.p. -- an exceptional power in those days.
Learning to Fly A Practical Manual for Beginners Claude Grahame-White 1919
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On the other hand, the French monoplane, of which the Bleriot is the best known example, has wings with well rounded extremities, and flaring tail, so that the two can be readily distinguished.
Aeroplanes 1915
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In 1909 Louis Bleriot made history by becoming the first pilot to cross the English Channel.
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Bleriot may well have been the first to cross the Channel, but just two months before his flight newspapers had suggested that the Channel had been crossed secretly, and at night, by a far more sinister aircraft - the German Zeppelin airship.
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In 1909 Louis Bleriot made history by becoming the first pilot to cross the English Channel.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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Bleriot may well have been the first to cross the Channel, but just two months before his flight newspapers had suggested that the Channel had been crossed secretly, and at night, by a far more sinister aircraft - the German Zeppelin airship.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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As an old, bearded man that palps a Bleriot, right on!
Bicycle Market Outlook: Nerve-Racking, with Chance of Fenders BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Today, the museum is truly world class, with sixty three restored planes and spacecraft, from the 1909 Bleriot 11 (a sister ship to the first plane to cross the English Channel) to LEM 13, the Lunar Module that stayed home when the Apollo program was terminated.
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The plane that made it across the channel was called Bleriot XI, because Bleriot I thourgh Bleriot X kept crashing and getting destroyed.
Good airplane book for kids Tripp 2006
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The plane that made it across the channel was called Bleriot XI, because Bleriot I thourgh Bleriot X kept crashing and getting destroyed.
Archive 2006-11-01 Tripp 2006
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